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My boyfriend and I have been to stay at The Bothy twice... We love it! Its a lovely cosy cottage and it's very clean with fresh bedding and towels provided. We love the log fire, we've stayed in winter both times so used it alot :) The first time we stayed was for my birthday so Darren arranged with Juliet to have flowers and champagne on the table for when we arrived which was lovely of her to do for us! Would highly recommend! We will be going back again in Jan! :D

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Management Response

19 Jun 2016

Look forward to seeing you again. There is no season which is best as the beauty is forever changing with the seasons.

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We stayed two nights at the Bothy, no one was at home when we arrived. Strangely no one called at all, whilst we were there. OK it's nice to be left alone, however a "did you find us OK" or "nice to see you, thanks for coming" would have been nice. We did see someone feeding the one chicken later in the day.Everything you need for the duration appears to be in place, a can of fly spray would have been handy on the first night, the windows had been left open and our winged friends had moved in. All the important things like towels and bedding were clean and fresh. Some other areas needed a clean up. I suspect its was because the season was coming to an end. We did enjoy our stay and would recommend it to our friends.The water out of the taps was a little brown (off putting) bottled water was supposed to be in the fridge according to the room inventory, but it wasn't, I suspect it would be fine, however I boiled it just in case.

If you are visiting this area for the Antique shops, forget it. The few we found were just junk shops.

The falls were by far the bet bit and well worth seeing.

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Liked best:Killing the flies.

Liked least:The brown water, looked like sheep dip.

Travelling group:Spouse/Partner

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Management Response

21 Oct 2015

I am so sorry Lee arrived to find no one at home but sadly he didn't give me a contact number so I couldn't speak to him before he arrived. He arrived before check in time and was found by my son at 3.15 still sitting in his car. My son got on very well with them and sorted out the flies which had come in overnight due to the first frost as I had left a window open. Lee joked about the flies and my son was offered a cup of tea! He cleared the flies up while Lee and his wife had a short walk. So although I didn't see Lee my son had seen them and reported all was well.I understand about the colour of the water being an issue but it has been regularly tested and safe to drink. Ironically our whole water filtration system was re-done a week later ,the work having been booked for weeks! The water is now crystal clear at all times and the tests show it is of a very high quality as it is very pure ground water with nothing undesirable in! We could probably sell it! Every other guest has commented on the high quality of the Bothy interior and excellent level of cleanliness so I was surprised to see they felt it was tired. We always re-do decoration / carpets etc in Feb if needed. In our guest book they said they loved their stay and would recommend it to friends. They thought the waterfalls were spectacular . I hope I Have reassured any future guests. Please do get in touch if you would like to know anything specifically.

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Real get away from it all place in a lovely location. Great for walks and touring the beautiful villages. Cottage really cosy with well equipped kitchen. Juliet, the owner very helpful.Only issue was could not get a wifi connection and so had to go into Leyburn to access the internet.

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Management Response

19 Jun 2016

We hope the wifi issue will be more reliable in future !

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